While walking around looking at all the houses which were destroyed by the floods, I saw this lady carefully putting out some items on her porch and I notice some of them were albums. So I asked if I could come up and see them. She started showing me page by page and telling me about who is in those photos.
“Are this all your family albums?”
“Yes there are, all my family and grandchildren photos. I have only one daughter but there are all of my family, cousins and others.”
“But they are all smudged now from the mud, do you have the negatives?”
“No I don’t, these is all I have. I’ll keep them here and see them daily, until the day I burn them.”
As a photographer, I knew how painful that was. She just smiled at me and went on enjoying every moment from the photos, as she still had the memories with her.
(Kuala Krai, Kelantan – Malaysia)
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